As long-term toxicity to many of the nucleoside medications have become known, interest has increased in treatment regimens that do not use these medications. This study is to assess the response of one such "nucleoside-sparing" therapy in patients who are showing failure to their initial nucleoside-containing treatment regimen.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and older

Genders Eligible for Study:

Both

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

HIV viral load > 1,000 on current antiviral medications

No resistance to study medications

Over 18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

Hepatitis B co-infection

Pregnancy

Previous therapy with either of the study medications

Ongoing substance abuse

Significant history of other physical disease

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00981318